Re: Radeon support state in libkms

[Alexandre Demers <alexandre.f.demers@gmail.com>]

On 11-02-11 06:21 AM, Jakob Bornecrantz wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Corbin Simpson
> <mostawesomedude@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 6:49 AM, James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> wrote:
>>>> I was looking at the radeon support state in libkms and I found out the
>>>> following patch was proposed back in September, but never commented nor
>>>> merged. The patch was submitted by nobled.
>>>>
>>>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2010-September/003740.html
>>>>
>>>> I applied it on the latest drm git version without any problem and
>>>> compilation looks fine. Is there a reason preventing it from being merged?
>>>>
>>>> If it needs testing, make your suggestion, I'll gladly make my best to
>>>> test it.
>>> Good point. Is KMS dead? Anyone?
>> I was seriously hoping that Dave's dumb buffer API would go upstream
>> and that libkms would be able to use that generic path for all KMS
>> drivers, rather than needing shim code for every driver it supports.
>>
>> That said, yeah, the libkms maintainer probably should pull that code
>> in. Who is that, anyway?
>>
>> ~ C.
> That would probably be me.
>
> The "core" libkms changes are rb/acked and the radeon changes looks
> good so just go ahead and commit them anyways. Nobled do you have
> commit access to the drm repo?
>
> Cheers Jakob.

I don't think Nobled has commit access. But to be sure, I'm adding it to
the conversation. ;)

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Alexandre Demers